biography
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Warner, Rex (Ernest)
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| lived:
| (1905–86)
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| biography:
| Writer, Greek scholar, and translator, born in Birmingham, West Midlands, C England, UK. He studied at Oxford, was a teacher of classics in England and Egypt, director of the British Institute at Athens, (1940s), and professor of English at Connecticut (1964–74). He is best known for his later historical novels, such as The Young Caesar (1958) and Pericles the Athenian (1963), and for his novels concerned with the problems of the individual involved with authority, such as Goose Chase (1938) and The Aerodrome (1941). He also wrote poetry and made translations of Greek classics. |
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